[OpenIndiana-discuss] we'll pay a bounty to fix three annoying problems in illumos

[Jason Matthews]

> As an observation, there are cleverer solutions than manually 
> calling sas2ircu [card] locate [backplane] [id] [on/off].

Thanks but it is not manual, it is scripted and keyed off the disk name.

> napp-it has a paid option, as does Nexenta, for this - I know a number
> of people in the community have written similar things or are doing
> so, so if you look in the mailing list archives, you'll probably find
> some useful things. 

Napp-it isn't a good fit as I am not running storage appliances. I have no
interest in installing their frame work. I have no interest in paying per
node for something that is mostly implemented by former engineers at Sun and
then gifted to us. Paying Napp-it or Nexenta for that matter doesn't help
IllumOS.

Oh, and the Nexenta solution, well, runs on Nexenta.

The goal is to enhance IllumOS.

How many man hours have collectively been wasted by highly paid individuals
implementing their own solutions outside of the framework that Sun provided?
I want a kernel hacker solution, not a sysadmin solution. 

In a better world the project would have the resources to identify at least
four external storage boxes (some 2.5", some 3.5", some SATA, some SAS) and
get the SES/FMD frameworks working for them.

We are willing to pay for the Newisys NDS-2240. 



j.



On Mon, Apr 9, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Jason Matthews <jason at broken.net> wrote:
>
>
> My company is interested in having two driver issues and a software issue
> resolved and we are willing to pay a bounty.
>
> Saturday, we were hit by something that looked similar to the mpt/mpt_sas
> i/o hang issue https://www.illumos.org/issues/1069. This is a serious bug
to
> any "enterprise" or "carrier" grade solution and yet doesn't appear from
the
> bug db that any progress has been made on it. I realize this problem may
be
> "hard." Fortunately, I have a disk that can create the problem ;-) and we
> would like to pay to have the problem solved.
>
> The other driver issue is the lack of a bmc driver.
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/370. The test platform I can provide is on
> Intel S5520UR motherboards with the server processor module.
>
>
> The third issue is to turn on fault lights for newisys nds-2240 disk
shelves
> when a disk has been identified as failed. The support for non-Sun JBOD
> shelves needs to be expanded. After the sale of LSI's disk shelf business
to
> NTAP options became quite limited. Today I use output from fmtopo and
> sas2irc util to flip on the locator led but this does not make for an
> enterprise solution. I understand that Nexenta has such a solution but
they
> are not sharing, which is too bad.
>
> Feel free to work on one or all three. In the end, we will donate the code
> to the project. If you are qualified and interested in being paid to solve
> these problems please send me email off list.
>
>
> Thanks,
> j.
>
>
>
>
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